{"id":2356,"date":"2022-07-01T15:51:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T15:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2022-07-01T15:51:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T15:51:21","slug":"july-2022-goodnews-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2022\/07\/01\/july-2022-goodnews-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"july 2022 \u2013 goodnews editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

angels and demons<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Though they lend form to the qualities we strive for (overall), I don\u2019t believe in Coincidence Control Agents (John Lilly), or angels. It\u2019s a nice thought, but I don\u2019t think that we, a species of ingenious losers, consort with\u00a0these lofty entities. If they were our helpers, why then would we be in this moral, ecological, economic, and social mess? Could it be that our mishaps are due to angels who hate us aka known as demons aka the nether instincts\u00a0in people?\u00a0<\/em>
\nThe idea of being aided or manipulated to our advantage by beings from other dimensions doesn\u2019t appeal to me. My mother, a devout protestant, used the Almighty to enforce her rules: God is watching you! I challenged and rejected this petty spy when I was five years old. Didn\u2019t he have more urgent concerns\u00a0than to busy himself with me? As a teenager, I understood that the church held me in contempt, as a girl and as a woman, and refused to resign myself to a life of pain and suffering. These feelings can and should not be avoided or repressed. But glorified as a religion? Somehow the idea of God as love was and is not expressed very convincingly by our religious institutions. Like Karl Marx famously\u00a0said: If Christians were truly Christian, we\u2019d notice.
\nI do believe the universe is intelligent and omnipotent, all my senses and faculties tell me so, but I don\u2019t think it cares whether I finished my plate last night or had a drunken fling with my neighbour\u2019s husband, though it may have been a terrible idea. I believe that the cosmos interferes with us in the slow and impersonal but not unfriendly way we call evolution.
\nAs to consorting\u00a0with spirits, that I do for sure. As a child I saw fairies, pixies, and dwarves behind every bush und under every toadstool. I\u2019ve met a few plant\u00a0spirits and I consult with animals and archetypes. Are they my outer or my inner guides? And where do visions and symbolic messages come from?\u00a0From the bottom of what reality?
\nI try to stay cool…
\n\u00a0 \u00a0Susanne G. Seiler<\/em><\/p>\n

P.S. The Psychedelic Salons will be back in September, In the meantime, we’re at the Gaia Lounge in Basel every Thursday afternoon from 14 – 18 h. Welcome!<\/p>\n

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my mama moved among the days<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

My Mama moved among the days
\nlike a dreamwalker in a field;
\nseemed like what she touched was hers
\nseemed like what touched her couldn\u2019t hold,
\nshe got us almost through the high grass
\nthen seemed like she turned around and ran
\nright back in
\nright back on in
\n\u00a0 \u00a0Lucille Cilfton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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